Re: Building Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> What I mean is that for my target audience, bioinformaticians, most
> number crunching is on aging Centos-style machines. If Nix is the
> easiest route to get Guix going for now I am perfectly happy to
> promote that, until Guix has it's own installation binaries as Nix has
> (binary tarball, rpm, deb etc.). The Nix binaries, unfortunately, do
> require root, which we don't have on all compute clusters, so I still
> end up building that from source.

I should mention that one may be able to install Guix using the
pre-built statically linked Guile that’s used in the bootstrap process
(look for DOWNLOAD_FILE at the end of gnu-system.am.)

Then the system still needs to provide libgcrypt.so, libbz2, and a few
others.

Ludo’.